Order card



March 1,1927. 4 1,619,511

O. G. HAUSNER ORDER CARD Filed June '7, 1926 Patented Mar. l, 1.927.

UNITED STATES OSCAR GEORGE HAUSNER, OF WEBSTER GROVES, MISSOURI.

ORDER CARD.

Application led June 7, 1926. Serial No. 114,152.

The objectof my invention is to devise an order card to be used in lordering merchandise. A more particularobject is to make an order card to be used particularly by the housewife in ordering food products, particularly dairy products, and more specifically milk, cream, etc. In-ordering milk, cream, etc., the purchaser rarely sees the salesman. Since a-written order must be made and placed so that it will be found and understood by the salesman, since practlcally all milk, etc., is sold in bottles, and since the empty bottles are returned to the salesman, my device is so formed as tohave av body portion upon which the order` 1s placed and a projection which may be 1nserted in the neck of the empty bottle. The

body portion is sufficiently large that it will not pass into`the neck of the bottle. My device 'is so formed that no pencil or Writto indicate the order that is desired. The advantages thus far described accrue to the purchaser. The advantage to the salesman is that the designations on the body portion of my device suggest the different products that the salesman is offering to sell. In this way the sales are materially increased because the different products that are sold are always placedv before the purchaser at each time that an order is given. My device is `made in one piece that can be easily, simply and cheaply manufactured and. that may be used indefinitely. The device is also provided with means for hanging on a nail when not in use. It is provided with pins or brads for indicating both the character of the product desired as well as the quantity. The character and quantity areindicated by the 'insertion of a single pin in a particular perforation.

With these and other objects in view, my invention has relation to certain novel features of "construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, ponted out in the claim and illustrated in the drawings in which,

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my device and 1n which- Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of my device, showing the back of Fig. 1. Q

Numeral 3 designates the body portion of my device, and numeral 4 an integral projection therefrom. My device may be made of Celluloid, aluminium, or any similar ma- `terial that is light in weight, cheap, and

`designations thereon.

position.

a-length sulicient that when it is inserted 4in a milk bottle that the bodyv portion 3 will be sustained in substantially a vertical The body portion is preferably made either circular or polygonal in shape.

The drawing shows the body portion circular in shape. On the front of the body portion, as indicated in Fig. l, radial lines are drawn so as to divide the area in as many segments as desired. These radial lines terminate in thecircle 4.l Numeral 5 designates a second circle of lesser radius than the circle 4. In each segment between the circles 4 and 5, is written the word Quantity. Numeral' designates a third circle of lesser radius than the second 'circle 5. In. each segment between the second and third circles are placed perforations 7. These perforations 7 are all positioned at the same radial distance from the center of the body 3 and each `perforation is numbered in `each segment. VIn Fig. 1, I have shown three such perforations in each segment and each perforation is numbered 1,

2, and 3. In the segments between the center of the body 3 and the third circle 6 are designated the different products sold by the salesman and the quantity of each product sold by the salesman. For instance, 1n one segment is' placed the designation Butter7 and the quantity Pounds and in yanother designation, Certified milk and quantity Quai-ts. In the projection 4 is formed a line of perforations 8. Numerals 9 designate pins or brads that may be placed in the line of perforations 8 lwhen not in use. Numeral 10 designates a perforation near the end of the projection 4, presenting means for hanging my device on a nail when not in use. On the reverse side of my device are printed the directions for using my device. On the `projection 4 may be printed the name of the dairy company. My device may be used by the selling comof my device is as follows: In order to indicate an order both in kind and quantity by my device, one of the pins 9 is removed lfrom the line of perforations 8 and placed in the proper perforation in the perforations 7. For instance, if it was .pany as an advertisement. `The operation desired to place an order for three pounds of butter, the pin would be placed in perforation 3 in the segment designated Butter, pounds. If it Were desired to order two pints of certified milk, the pin Would be placed in perforation 2 of perforations 7 in the segment designated Certified milk, pints. In this Way by the use of several pins, several orders may be placed. The pins not in use remain in the line of perforations 8. In order 'to secure the pins in the perforations, the ends Lare bent over as shown by 11 in Fig. 2.

What I claim and mean to secure by Letters Patent is- An order card comprising a circular body portion and a projection so proportioned as to permit its insertion into a bottle, the projection secured to the body portion, the face of the body portion being radially divided into sections, each section having a merchandise indication and a quan' tity indication and a row of perforations bearing numerical indications, pins of such osoAR GEORGE HASNER. 

